Chief of indicted SPLC faces House grilling over alleged secret payments to KKK members
The embattled leader of a left-wing nonprofit accused of secretly funneling money to members of extremist groups while publicly committing to "confronting hate" is headed for the hot seat on...
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The embattled leader of a left-wing nonprofit accused of secretly funneling money to members of extremist groups while publicly committing to "confronting hate" is headed for the hot seat on Capitol Hill. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) interim CEO and President Bryan Fair will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as a congressional probe into the civil rights group’s now-defunct informant practices heats up. Fair’s anticipated testimony comes as federal prosecutors secured an 11-count indictment against the law center in April for alleged financial crimes, including defrauding its donors by concealing payments to members of extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, the Aryan Nation and other neo-Nazi groups. "There are a lot of legitimate questions about what the SPLC was doing with donor money and how they were using it to basically fund the type of hate that they were pretending to be going after," Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Fox News on Monday. NEO-NAZIS, ‘SADISTIC’ BIKERS AND CHARLOTTESVILLE ORGANIZER: 5 OF THE MOST SHOCKING SPLC INFORMANTS House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is also probing the law center’s ties to the Biden Department of Justice on civil rights matters. The panel's investigation predates the criminal indictment. "For me, the biggest takeaway is the fact that the Biden White House and the Biden Justice Department helped make the Southern Poverty Law Center the standard," Jordan told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week. Republicans have sharply criticized the Biden Justice Department's use of the nonprofit's notorious "hate map" that targeted conservative groups, including Turning Point USA, Moms for Liberty and the Family Research Council. "The purpose of doing that was to basically stifle their ability to get the conservative message out," Gill told Fox News. The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment last week specifying that the law center covertly transfer…